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TIL scoring on bread loaves was originally so families could find their loaves after baking in community ovens

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g7KX TIL that 12 African nations have come together pledging to build a 15 kilometer wide band of trees that will stretch all the way across Africa, 7500 kilometer, in order to stop the progressive advancement of the Sahara.
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